Hey all 👋
Postwoman is changing name.
Our new identity aligns with our new focus — to provide the best open source testing suite in web.
Towards that goal, we are thrilled to announce that v2 will have a new name and domain.
- Similarity in name with "Postman" may introduce trademark violations in future.
- We don't want to hurt any other project's goodwill.
- Rather than being an "alternative to Postman", we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.
Update: 16th August 2020
Postwoman is now Hoppscotch 🎉
Special thanks to @ben (co-founder DEV.to) for suggesting this name 👏.
What about this name:
HoppScotch.
It's an alternate spelling of the game "hopscotch", and in my mind is a subtle nod to CS legend Grace Hopper, and implies "hopping" from one endpoint or web location to another.
"hopp" is also a similar in shape to "http".
Top comments (67)
kanye.rest
I laughed for like 5 mins. My dad haven't stopped laughing yet. 🤣🤣
What about this name:
HoppScotch.
It's an alternate spelling of the game "hopscotch", and in my mind is a subtle nod to CS legend Grace Hopper, and implies "hopping" from one endpoint or web location to another.
"hopp" is also a similar in shape to "http".
that's what I'm talking 🔥🔥
If you go with this loop me in, I’d love to help work out the imagery. It’s a fun visual.
Deal. I demand something as dope as benhalpern.com 🤠😻
"hopp" or something that's triggers similarities to http is the way to go.
XUnicorn,
Sirius (brightest star in the sky),
Orion - Aligns with the Pyramids of Giza (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correl...)
I like XUnicorn. It's kind of metal 🤘
wow... great idea. will share this with our team for sure.
Guys, I'm seriously troubled that nobody brought up the obvious Testy McTestface yet!
Shelob
I really like Charlotte!!
getrest.io
🤝 let me "get rest".
Restponse
good. will consider this too.
SpaceCorn ✨🦄
🛸 + 🦄
🤝
This is a good call. I think a distinctive brand will go along way.
Can you share the reason why you decided to change the name?
what about Rittest/Righttest/Rightest
OpenPost
My grain of sand to the mountain of inspiration, because I know how hard it can be to name things:
ZeitREST
Etymology:
Zeit: noun, feminine - from the German language, it means time, period, sequence.
Rest: verb, noun - from the English language, it means relief, absence of motion.
Using REST in uppercase is wordplay, a sort of homophone I guess.
Good luck!
I appreciate Duffel as an ex-Sailor. Since I had tons of them lol. Whatever you do, don't use Spectrum. That's not totally random. spectrumscm.com/
I never knew about spectrumscm.com lit ✨
I'm not proud of knowing it lol. Company I work for uses it for source control. Is a very outdated system based on Java, and it sucks tbh, but most of the engineers using it come from Industrial automation. The thing is that they built tons of tools around the spectrum ecosystem. Sucks because we have internal gitlab and azure devops but barely anyone is using it properly lol.
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